56 The 'War' of Sabers

(2 out of 2 chapters this week)

With twitchy legs Artoria walked out of the changing room, She was dressed in a white two-piece bikini, and her hair was done into a single ponytail.

There was a deep blush on her cheeks.

Holding her shoulders was Ren who was smiling brightly.

"Well-Well, my goody two shoes self looks much better." Alter acknowledged that Saber looked 'better'. Though she doesn't realise that apart from an extremely long session of kissing and fondling and his finger poking her special place nothing else has happened.

"Y-You, I will have my justice," Artoria said with deep blush mixed with anger.

"Justice? In what? Everything is fair in love and war." Artoria Alter said with a nonchalant shrug.

"I can't believe this came out from someone who has my face!"

"Your face? I was here before you, so it's my face!"

"You are like me, King of Knights! You should know what honour is!" Artoria exclaimed she was still blushing from the shame, and pleasure she experienced before.

Well, now it's mostly a shame.

After all, because of this Alter version of hers, she went from a simple Master-Servant relationship to something ambiguous, something a knight like her should not do in the first place!

This is why she is so pissed off now at her!

"Huh!? Remember? Inverted!? I don't care about your thingies." The Fallen Knight snorted with some anger as she didn't care about those thingies.

"...Fine. We will decide this on the 'battlefield'!" Artoria said with a serious look.

"Fine. The loser will have to serve the Master in any way he wants." Artoria Alter said with a grin. This made the King of Knights blush up a storm.

"F-Fine!"

The blonde blushed a storm but she can't back down now!

"Good. Master, you heard it didn't you?"

"Yeah-Yeah, you're just making more issues for me," Ren said with a resigned sigh, his Fallen Knight getting quite out of control.

"Please. You like it. You will like it even more than one of us will serve you any way you want."

"Can't deny that." The True Magic User smiled at the idea of that.

"Good. Then let's proceed."

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After buying the bikinis for his Sabers the trio returned to their rooms.

It took a few hours but the ship was finally on its way. The pools are outside so the weather is not the best to enjoy swimming.

They needed to wait for a few days. Instead, the group decided to laze around for a few days. Gray continued with her studies both Morgan and Ereshkigal were tutoring the pair while Ren continued with his research and studies.

He rolled out his journals and proceeded to check out Homunculi arts. He already can create proper life, resurrect Servants or more precisely make them reborn. 

But back when he was in the other timeline he learned the Primordial runes.

So may as well utilise them.

He quickly checked his formulas and inspected them. 

'Hmmm, we can work something with the spine, reinforce and regen, same with ribs, focus on the structural integrity.

Then organs, these could potentially be upgraded from the very bottom.'

He then swiftly pulled on his link with his Sabers and made mana flow on a paper he just created.

Slowly letters started to write on their own on the paper.

A full formula of the Servant's body manifested on the paper.

"Hmm… let's see, Dragon Core, Dragon Core—where are you?" Ren skimmed through the content. 

"Oh, there it is… a whole paragraph. If I mix it with Heaven's Feel, I could increase the output by several times."

As he thought about it he stroked his chin. 

Regardless he finally found something where to waste his free time when he is not with his wife or the girls.

~~~~~~Few Days Later~~~~~~

"Master! You will be our judge and referee!" Artoria said as she was dressed in white biking and had a belt with 'ammo'. This 'ammo' is several plastic containers with water. 

"That's right. You will decide who will win and who will lose."

Saber Alter said with a serious tone as she raised her pistols.

"Right, the rules are simple. You need to bathe each other with water. The first one to be fully drenched wins."

'Who would have thought that I would do something like this…*Sigh* From crazy True Magic acquisitions to silly Servant competitions, my life is one crazy rollercoaster.' Ren had a few seconds to reflect on his crazy trip so far. But oh well, he is in Fate so something like this one should expect or at least try to prepare in some fashion.

As he thought about it he watched how two Sabers, one dressed in a black bikini and the other one dressed in a white bikini are trying to hit each other with water attacks.

'That reminds me, didn't Servant variants dressed in bikinis exist in the Fate Grand Order game?'

As he thought about his Alter he scored her first hit.

His regular Saber still needs to adjust to the situation. While his Fallen Knight is less chained by certain rules. 

'Hmm, I guess that's why that bikini version of Artoria is Archer, she is more relaxed.' 

"First match goes to Alter." Ren casually raised his hand.

"...Ugh! You cheated!"  

"It's not my fault that you thought that I would do it honourably." The pale blond said while spinning her guns in her hands.

'Really? Honour, justice? Even in children's games?' Ren is baffled at how these girls are operating. Bringing serious stuff into this?

"Fine! If you want me to fight dirty then I shall!" Artoria seriously said that before looking at her Master.

"Master, can you dry me up?"

With a hand wave, the entirety of the pool area dried up alongside the pairs of bikinis and their bodies. He can't believe he is keeping this whole part of the ship to himself. Just so that these two will settle their 'grudges'...

In a battle with water guns.

"My thanks."

"Yeah, shall we get to it? I want to see what Master will do to you once I win this whole thing."

"In your dreams, you're honourless—woman!"

*Amused Snort*

"You need to develop your swearing words repertoire," Alter said with a small giggle as there was a grin on her lips.

"Ugh!"

The embarrassed blush returned to her cheeks with force, and this made her look away with some shame, The King of Knights got roasted again, but this was coming from her other self. 

Which makes her feel that extra damage. 

~~~~~~Few Hours Later~~~~~~

"As I said. Victory is mine!" Alter rose her water gun into the air.

She looked like she was revealing her 'Holy Sword' radiance to the unworthy.

"Ugh… fine…you cheated your way to this. But I will get my revenge. Justice always prevails!" Artoria said while clenching her hand.

"Yeah, Whatever. So, what does the Master request of you?" The Fallen Knight forgot about her victory quickly and looked at what Ren would choose to do with his Saber.

This made the King of Knights quickly remember that she promised to do whatever her Master wanted.

A small blush crept on her cheeks as she was awaiting his choice.

For some reason, the very first idea was that he would want to have his way with her.

"Oh, right… I have an idea." He said with a smirk.

This made the pair curious, they wondered why he exclaimed like that.

~~~~~~Few Minutes Later~~~~~~

Artoria looked at herself in the mirror, She was dressed in a maid uniform, knee-length skirt, black socks, white and black uniform, with black gloves that went all the way to her elbows.

She was the perfect example of a maid. To finish this off, Ren has put the maid's headpiece on her head.

"It's unbelievable that a cruise ship has a maid uniform like this." Ereshkigal looked with wonderment, she was thinking of dressing like one just to play along with what Artoria was doing right now.

"Master! It's not fair! You're supposed to do something to her not make me jealous!" Alter pointed her finger with some jealousy on her usual poker face.

"How is being a maid making YOU jealous?" Saber questioned her counterpart. This was absurd, she was reduced to a servant, with small 's' not capital one. 

"Because of how professional it looks! Maids are simply an art! Just look at that professionalism radiating just from wearing the uniform!"

'Now that I remember, doesn't she have a Rider maid variant? Which is a five-star Servant, unlike her Saber version which is a four-star?

It's like she found her calling and her dedication rose once again to become a five-star.' Ren had an amused look on his face.

"I think it's just her Charisma B…" Ereshkigal said with a confused tone.

"Doubtful…" Alter said with crossed arms.

"Master I request a uniform as well, and you have to figure out another thing for my goody two shoes version, because this is just not fair."

"Fair!? You cheated to win! What does fairness have to do with anything!?" Artoria exclaimed angrily as she turned around and looked at the Fallen Knight.

"So…you chickening out? I thought as a King of Knights no matter what you will hold to your values?" Alter said with a knowing grin. 

"...You…are just the worst. An evil version of me. Someone who abandoned everything for a few extra scraps of power." Saber said with a somewhat disgusted look.

"Yep. That's why I wear black and red, and you wear your gold and blue." The Fallen Saber didn't even look offended by whatever her goody-two-shoes version tried to do.

It didn't even cause any sort of reaction.

"Fine. I will do whatever Master wants me to do. No matter what it is." Artoria said while holding her head high.

'These two are testing each other quite a bit aren't they?' the blonde Lancer commented via her connection to her Master.

'You have no idea, they have been at this for days now. Both are serious for the wrong reasons.'

Ren said with a sigh.

~~~~~~ A Few Days Later, In Africa's Prairies~~~~~~

The group was dressed for the occasion of seeing the wilderness of Africa. In shorts and shirts meant for such expeditions, accompanied by hats, sunglasses and climbing boots.

"Master! Look at the Elephants!" Artoria forced Ren to look at the side. When a group of elephants are walking somewhere, they look majestic.

"Not bad. I can see why Romans were terrified of them for a while." Alter said with an acknowledging look. She can see them as worthy war beasts.

"Impressive, couple enchantments there and there, combined with armour for vital areas and they would be perfect for crowd control," Morgan said with an acknowledging tone, She was stroking her chin thinking for more uses.

While the pair discussed war uses for these majestic creatures, Ereshkigal and Gray simply observed everything with hyper curiosity. They had never seen anything like this before.

For Ereshkigal, it was since she never left Kur while Rin's memories are just around Fuyuki, while Gray is even worse, she only has her Village so she is trying to process everything.

After looking around for more, Ren continued to drive the rented Safari SUV, and now there was no one else with them. They hypnotised the people to let them do whatever they wanted.

A few short kilometres later, the pair of Sabers looked at Pride of Lions. 

They didn't speak, simply observed the beasts.

They were taking in the sheer picturesque view of this.

Others followed their example and simply watched the scene for a while. 

"Oh, I think they are going for a hunt." The blonde Lancer whispered as she looked through her binoculars.

"Yeah, Females hunt while the only male in the pride lazes around. That's quite a life he has." Ren commented on the lazy life of the only male in Pride. 

'The original Harem Kings…' Ren sagely nodded to himself.

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